>>108703397all they had to do was make the crops do more than one thing like dyes or to make stew or something in the cauldron so they're interchangeable... don't want to make eggs cookable? make egg+dye create paint so you can paint wood and cobble instead of implementing 50 redundant colors of them
of course hytale isn't thinking this way either, but you can easily convert unwanted crops into generic food and bulk craft from chests instead of hauling it around so it's not that cluttered really